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Cocaine Is the Fastest-Growing Illegal Drug Worldwide. Here’s Why.
A United Nations report found a rise in users, confiscation and deaths as cocaine trafficking expands into Africa and Asia, ...
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Peru's Coca Cultivation: A Decline for the Second Year
Peru's land dedicated to coca cultivation has decreased for the second year in a row by 8.2% in 2024, reaching 89,755 ...
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Cartels smuggle a different type of cocaine to new labs overseas
Increasingly, the groups are smuggling coca paste — cheap, unrefined cocaine - to laboratories as far away as Italy and the ...
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Peru's Significant Reduction in Coca Cultivation Area
Peru's coca cultivation area decreased for the second year in 2024 by 29% compared to 2023. The area now stands at 89,755 ...
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Narcos on the front line: Cartel jungle labs for cocaine and meth exposed
Wearing camouflage gear, body armour, and carrying extra magazines of ammunition on their chests for their M16 machine guns, they surround a cocaine lab. The planning takes months; the labs can ...
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Cartels smuggle a different type of cocaine to new labs overseas
Global cocaine production reached a record of an estimated 3,708 tons in 2023, up 300% over the last decade, according to the UNODC’s 2025 World Drug Report published Thursday. That makes it the ...